Inscriptions of the Ranganathasvamy Temple, Srirangam
KAKATIYA
Prataparudradeva Maharaja
No. 283
(Page No. 301)
(A. R. No. 79 of
1938-39)
South wall of the
Chandana-Mandapa
Damaged. Appears to register some gift
(details lost) by Devari-Nayaningaru, son of Machaya Nayaningaru,
whose achievements against the Pancha Pandya and Kerala
Kulasekhara etc. in his southern expedition are enumerated.
Devari-Nayaka is described as the Nayaka of King Pratapa- rudradeva-Maharaja
and is given the epithets Kakataraya-sthapanacharya and
Svamidrohara-ganda.
The record is in Telugu language
engraved in Grantha characters. The details of date namely
Saka 1239, ( in words), Pingala, Chaitra su. 14, Monday, lunar eclipse,
regularly correspond to A.D. 1317, March 28, Monday.
Published in Epigraphic Indica,
Vol. XXVII., pp. 304. ff.
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